Colin Baker will fill the shoes of the late John Thaw as Inspector Morse in a new murder mystery at the Grand Opera House, York, this autumn.
Thirty-five years after the grumpy sleuth with an eye for the ladies and a thirst for beer made his first appearance in Colin Dexter’s novel Last Bus To Woodstock, Morse will appear in House Of Ghosts, An Inspector Morse Mystery, by arrangement with the novelist. The tale relates Morse’s encounter with Laurence Baxter, a theatre director he has regarded as the only truly evil man he has met, ever since their Oxford undergraduate days. Twenty years later, Morse finds Baxter at the centre of a murder case that involves the on-stage death of a young actress.
Colin Baker, 66, is known principally for two contrasting television roles for the BBC: the prototype yuppie Paul Merroney in The Brothers and the flamboyant sixth incarnation of Doctor Who.
House Of Ghosts will run from September 16 to 18. Tickets on 0844 847 2322.
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